Vionnet

Called "the architect among dressmakers," Parisian couturier Madeleine Vionnet founded her fashion house in 1912. She eschewed conventional corsetry in favor of fluid drapingrevolutionizing the way women dressedand is best known today for her sensual, Grecian-style dresses and for inventing the bias cut. The label was immensely successful in the 1920s and 1930s. Vionnet dressed some of the periods most famous facesincluding Marlene Dietrich, Katharine Hepburn, and Greta Garbobefore she shuttered the house in 1939, at the outbreak of World War II. The brand was revived in 2008, and is currently designed by twin sisters Barbara and Lucia Croce.